PORTMEIRION VILLAGE . MID WALES
photo. michael maggs. wilkimedia commons
Designed by Sir Clough Williams Ellis born Gayton rectory Northamptonshire .H e planned to design his own village from the age of 5-6years old.
His father was the rector of St Marys Church Gayton Northampton
Having lived in Blisworth from 1959-1968 , i involved myself into village life and joined into help out. Going to church each Sunday and also bible class . I got to know the people connected to the church. I became a Sunday school teacher and enjoyed teaching the children about God and Jesus and the bible. My mother was a member of the WI and i was the youngest member to join. She was a member for 50 years. Each month there was a competition and the person that won the most competitions at the end of the year won a silver WI teaspoon. One year out mother won and the following year i won the prize.The over sixties had a tea club and mum would help out once a month by making small cakes and helping the old people by taking the tea around in the old Chapel rooms in Chapel Lane.
As i attended Roade School i was out of the village all weekdays. Two school buses run by Websters collected us each morning. One from the Gayton area and the other from Towcester Road area of Blisworth. This was a good way of getting to know the local school children. After a cookery lesson if we girls had done cooking the boys would be after us to try the food we had cooked. We very often went home with no food in our baskets.
Some of our friends lived in other villages and during the school holidays we would go for bike rides to see them. I used to ride to Wootton and Hardingstone and Gayton.
Gayton was the village where Sir Clough Williams Ellis was born in 1883. He died in 1978.he designed and built Portmeiron village in Mid Wales. a fine copy of an Italian village. His daughter Susan designed Portmerion Pottery. Her god father was Rudyard Kipling. One of our school houses in Barry Road Secondary School was named after him. It was called Kipling House .
Weston by Weedon
Mr Cecil Henry Middleton . BBC gardener . died 1945 , the BBC used Langham Hotel in london and the gardens were used for growing vegetables during the 2nd world war. In 1961 the garden was dedicated to Cecil . H Middleton as MIDDLETON ROSE GARDEN.The Middleton family lived at Weston hall near Brackley Northamptonshire. Cecil father was head gardener for the hall.George Gulliver was a servant at the hall.
GREENS NORTON
This is a village near Towcester. It was here that the Greene family came. their most famous member of the family was MAUD GREENE who married SIR Thomas Parr. their daughter was Katherine Parr who married KING HENRY VIII as his last wife. She married Thomas Seymour Baron of Sudeley.She died maybe in childbirth at Sudeley Castle.
Maud Greene came from a long line of the GREENE family from Northamptonshire at Boughton until 1700 and later they purchased Greens Norton. They was Lord Greene of Greens Norton from 1359 -1590.Many are buried in the church in the village.
.Maud Greene maternal grandmother was Alice Hawte who was first cousin to ELIZABETH WOODVILLE Queen Consort to King Edward IV.
Many of the family of Greene emigrated to the USA on the ship MATTHEW.
SIr Thomas Greene b 1292 became Head SHERIFF of Northampton 1330-1332.
Sir Thomas Greene 1413-1422 was Warden of WHITTLEBURY FOREST. Northamptonshire;
It here each year IN 1950`S we was taken by car by our aunt NANCY GULLIVER to see the rhododendrons on the edge of the forest.
One of the members of the family Henry Greene of BANBURY area of
Nethercote , his daughter Elizabeth Greene married JOHN GULLIVER of OVERTHORPE BANBURY'as his first bride. he later married sarah and it is from this union that i come from.
It was Elizabeth Greene`s grandfather John Greene who was 3rd cousin to Katherine Parr, [Queen Katherine[ married King HENRY VIII]
The one thing the GREENE family did not allow was for pictures of themselves . They had a family tradition that it was unlucky for other people to see a portrait of the family.
Maud Greene from Greens Norton married Thomas Parr. They had a son who died as a baby.their last child died as a baby also.
Thomas Parr was Baron of HORTON. Northamptonshire.
William Parr their son became Earl of ESSEX and 1st Marquess of NORTHAMPTON. He was buried at St Marys Church .Warwick.he left no children.
His sister Catherine Parr married 4 times. her third marriage was to King Henry VIII. Her last marriage was to Sudeley . they had one daughter Mary Seymour. she may have died at a young age.
Anne Parr , another child married and became Countess Pembroke as she married William Herbert.
Maud Parr married Ralph Lane of WARKWORTH ,Northamptonshire.
In the Greyfriars church of Northampton Mary Parr nee Salisbury and her parents were buried .the church was demolished and the land has been built on many times,
Village of HORTON NORTHAMPTONSHIRE.
In the Church of St Marys the Virgin .HORTON contains the monument of Sir William Parr,Lord of Horton.d 1546 and other members of the family.In 1937 the estate was sold off in small lots.The Parr family had married well into the Greene family from GREENS NORTON.
The HORTON estate passed to the brewer PICKERING PHILLPS in 1887.He had a house built in COLLINGTREE Park. nothing of the house remains only stone arches near the A45.
BAKERS history and antiquites of Northampton
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Ringstead village Northamptonshire . Where the Roberts family came from. Margaret Thatcher fathers family were born in Ringstead. They can be traced back to at least a William Roberts born 1767-1836. her father Alfred was born in Ringstead, but moved to Grantham and ran a grocery shop. he went on to become Mayor of Grantham
1n 2002 i attended a christening of a friends grandson at the church in the village where the family of Roberts had been christened , married and buried
Horton Church. Northamptonshire.flickr
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. Ringstead Church. Northamptonshire
Gate House HORTON . NORTHAMPTONSHIRE .photo steven Collis
Sir Thomas Greene & Lady Phillip Greene .Barthlomew Church .Greens Norton .Northamptonshire photos. flickr.amanda
Maud Greene .Brass , in Greens Norton .Church .Northamptonshire
Greens Norton Church Northamptonshire
Sir Reginald Manningham Buller.Ist Viscount Dilhorne lived in the Court. Greens Norton . He was born in Amersham Buckinghamshire and died 1980.
His family is connected to the flowing families.Cavendish, Cameron, Churchill, Cadbury,Gage, Gulliver,Knightley,Spencer and the Royal family among others.
